What are the hardware requirements for Cheap MoE Merge?

Cheap MoE Merge requires approximately 38.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Cheap MoE Merge and how large is it?

Cheap MoE Merge is developed by khoantap, a model with 19.3b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Cheap MoE Merge?

Cheap MoE Merge is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Cheap MoE Merge by khoantap — VRAM 38.5GB, 128K context

Name: Cheap MoE Merge
Author: khoantap

Cheap MoE Merge is an open-source language model by khoantap. Features: 19.3b LLM, VRAM: 38.5GB, Context: 128K, MoE, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Arxiv:1910.09700 Conversational Endpoints compatible Moe Qwen2 moe Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/khoantap/cheap-moe-merge

Cheap MoE Merge Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Cheap MoE Merge
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/khoantap/cheap-moe-merge
Model Size	19.3b
Required VRAM	38.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	khoantap
Model Type	qwen2_moe
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-8 4.9 GB: 2-of-8 5.0 GB: 3-of-8 4.9 GB: 4-of-8 4.9 GB: 5-of-8 5.0 GB: 6-of-8 4.9 GB: 7-of-8 4.0 GB: 8-of-8
Model Architecture	Qwen2MoeForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.46.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|begin_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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